{"id":2059,"date":"2016-05-24T08:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2016-05-24T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:42:30","slug":"the-format-of-the-specified-computer-name-is-invalid-vcsa-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/the-format-of-the-specified-computer-name-is-invalid-vcsa-6","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The format of the specified computer name is invalid&#8221; VCSA 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to join a vcenter to domain I was given the following error in the GUI<\/p><p><strong>&#8220;The format of the specified computer name is invalid&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p>Turns out you can join the computer using a CLI ,\u00a0<\/p><p>Putty into the VCenter and run<\/p><pre id=\"GUID-8F0E13E2-8227-4EC4-A863-758D48EBC72D__codeblock_20AD141262E34CE9AB0A0EC1C81D86E0\" class=\"codeblock\" xml:space=\"preserve\">shell.set --enabled true<br \/><br \/>go to <\/pre><p>\/opt\/likewise\/bin\/domainjoin-cli join <i>domain.com<\/i> <i>Domain_Administrator<\/i> <i>Password<\/i><\/p><p>I was then showed this :\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>the hostname may not be &#8216;linux&#8217; or &#8216;localhost&#8217;<\/strong><\/p><p>Turn out the Vcenter DNS had been set to localhost.localdom ( due to it being added using an IP ) which it didn&#8217;t like. Changing the host name to the correct one fixed this<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to join a vcenter to domain I was given the following error in the GUI&#8220;The format of the specified computer name is invalid&#8221;Turns out you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1492,1491,1493,1490,1489,594],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-domain","tag-join","tag-sso","tag-the-format-of-the-specified-computer-name-is-invalid","tag-vcsa-6","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}